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BASED on President Umaru Yar'Adua's request to the Revenue, Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) on February 10, 2009, on the need to slash the allowances of certain political, public and judicial office holders, the Commission yesterday announced some measures in this regard including the cancellation of the 300 per cent severance gratuity allowances of the President and the ...
The search is on, presumably in earnest, for a replacement for the post of Inspector-General of Police (IG). The position will become vacant on July 24, as the incumbent IG, Mike Okiro, will retire on that day.
The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa'ad Abubakar was right when he raised serious concerns recently over the growth of the menace of negative youthful exuberance, characteristic of miscreants generally referred to as Area Boys, in an otherwise peaceful state of Sokoto. The Sultan's alarm came while receiving in audience the new Police Commissioner posted to the state.
Most controversies, corruption cases, probes and other scandals in the country dominate the headlines and airwaves only for a period, and notwithstanding the seriousness of the issues at stake, they are soon forgotten and those involved walk away without as much as a reprimand.
House of Representatives members appear finally set to begin the long awaited constitution review, with a resolution on Thursday to adopt a special procedure for the exercise.
He was a prominent member of the Supreme Military Council (SMC) from 1975 to 1979, in the days of Yakubu Gowon, Murtala Muhammed, and Olusegun Obasanjo as Heads of State.
National Chairman of the All Nigeria Peoples Party, Edwin Ume-Ezeoke, said on Thursday that the leadership of his party has concluded plans to challenge the defection of Bauchi State Governor, Isa Yuguda, and 17 members of the state House of Assembly to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC), Parry Osayande, on Thursday observed that the Nigeria Police was not effectively equipped to perform optimally under a democratic setting before 1999.
Former Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Femi Pedro, has urged Nigerians who have the ambition of creating wealth in this era of global financial crisis to seek required financial knowledge and skills.
The battle to retrieve the 76 oil wells taken from Cross River State and ceded to Akwa Ibom State has shifted to the nation's capital, Abuja.
It affords me great pleasure to be with you this morning and I would like to begin by congratulating the council members and indeed, the rank and file of the members of the Nigerian-British Chamber of Commerce on yet another milestone in the history of the Chamber, the commemoration of this year's business day. What the Chamber seeks to accomplish by marking the business day is well known to many ...
Former Nigeria junior international, Peter Nieketien, has advised the players and coaches of the Super Eagles not to be carried away by the goalless score-line with Tunisia's Carthage Eagles in last month's 2010 World Cup qualifiers in Tunis.
What a man can do, a woman can do better, goes a popular downtown Nigerian street lingo. This particularly used to be the case when gender-based issues were raised. Gradually, however, the slang began to be applied in virtually all professions, the entertainment sector inclusive.
President Umaru Yar'Adua and his Deputy, Goodluck Jonathan, are to lose their gratuity of 300 per cent of basic salary, in part to tame the effect of the global economic crunch on country folk.
Senators unanimously on Thursday approved a new law that would prohibit gas flaring and punish oil companies that flout it in Nigeria.
Bode Ola, a presumed new entrant in the politics of Ekiti before the April 14 senatorial election in Ekiti State, has proved not to be a political neophyte after all.
The journey on the 29th of June 2009 to the Brick House Port Harcourt by Alhaji Asari Dokubo, who was led by Prince Tonye Princewill, the leader and chairman, of Board of Trustees of the Forum of Organised Opposition Political Parties (FOOPP) in Rivers State, has not only left many people agape, but also proved the critics of the Eso-led reconciliatory panel wrong.
My submission is that there is so much corruption in the university system, and no responsible government can continue to throw funds into a drain pipe. As for the issue of salary increment, please forget it. If any increment is granted by government, other professional or rival unions in the public sector will follow suit and make the country ungovernable.
Minister of Sports and Chairman, National Sports Commission, Sani Ndanusa, has restated the country's desire to invest heavily in international sports politics to enhance the nation's political and technical standing in the global sports arena.
Registrar of National Examinations Council (NECO), Promise Okpala, has written to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), denying any connection with an alleged N5 billion fraud in the council.
The Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN) on Thursday joined its voice to the array of condemnation that has greeted the recent story citing The African Report, a publication of Paris based Groupe Jeune Afrique Magazine, to the effect that "only four Nigerian banks are strong."
This morning, family members, friends, comrades, colleagues and admirers of the late pan-African icon, Dr. Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem, will gather in Abuja to mark the 40th day of his death with a variety of events wound around a symposium on the theme, 'Don't Agonise, Organise! The life of Dr. Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem, 1961-2009, and Pan-Africanism.
PERRY OPARA is both the National Chairman of National Unity Party (NUP) and President of West African Association of Political Parties (WAAPP). He was recently elected as the Chairman of Inter-party Advisory Council (IPAC), a body constituted for the purpose of ensuring the implementation of the code of conduct for political parties. In this interview with reporters including MICHAEL JEGEDE, Opara ...
SERVICOM Office has enjoined the management of the Kuje General Hospital to adapt its services to meet the needs of residents in remote areas through the introduction of outreach services.
The United States African Development Foundation (USADF) has signed a grant of $91, 464 to benefit the Physically Handicapped Association of Nigeria in Kaduna State (PHAN-Kaduna). The grant, according to report from the American embassy in the country, will be used to create income generating opportunities for members of the association.
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